Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fecundity is determined by the ovulation rate ; this can also be low where feeding is poor but is also lower in young and old females , and is genetically influenced too — so always try to breed from twins or triplets . |
| 2 | Shy where persecuted ; elsewhere comes out into open , often flirting tail , and climbs reed stems ; flight as Moorhen . |
| 3 | It was interesting seeing publishing from the top . ’ |
| 4 | Erm I do n't know if I gave you , and if I did n't I need to , the things that I 've called recordings logs , that are different than meeting logs . |
| 5 | So this slightly different than looking for angles is n't it . |
| 6 | C. T. R. Wilson [ q.v. ] later showed that condensation can take place on ions in dust-free air , but this can only be achieved in the laboratory using greater expansion and cooling than occurs naturally . |
| 7 | ‘ More interesting than sharing your schemes and plans with the board of Chester 's , I expect . ’ |
| 8 | seems far more interesting than knowing that they 've rehearsed for hours on end . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , that 's so much more interesting than hearing how many tons of marble went into the Arch of Constantine ! ’ |
| 10 | Those who have worked in the legal civil service report that it is much more interesting than appears at first sight . |
| 11 | What about a game of chess — would n't that be more interesting than following a solitary pursuit — or how about gin rummy ? ’ |
| 12 | It had been much more exciting than seeing a weka for the first time . |
| 13 | It 's a strange sort of footy is this , but still a lot more exciting than watching Birmingham City . |
| 14 | There are few experiences more exciting than starting your own business . |
| 15 | But Hilary Witt , head of Cambridgeshire 's catering service , admits : ‘ The trouble is , going into a school hall for dinner is less exciting than going into the Wimpy bar . |
| 16 | Moreover , the peasantry were proving more acquiescent than had been expected , and the government was responding to the financial concern of the nobility with a variety of measures including plans to establish provincial banks . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd sooner be a crisp than survive . |
| 18 | In part , this was because of the spread of liberal ideas and institutions since 1815 ; governments were tending to be less the oppressors of the governed than identified with them , though this process had still far to go in 1880 . |
| 19 | He had no shield , nor needed one , for till the fit wore off a berserker would notice no wound lesser than beheading . |
| 20 | What was of most interest , however , was that these subjects then performed less well in subsequent trials when the outcomes were made controllable than did those animals or students who had previously been in controllable situations . |
| 21 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 22 | Erm , to cut a long story short , if a attractive Fairfax erm , individual enterprise came up , we would be far more interested than taking a stake that was a , just an investment . |
| 23 | Well I do n't like office , I love hotels and I think having meetings in a hotel 's more civilized than sitting in an office . |
| 24 | But McGrath , who has had eight operations on his knees , revealed this could be his swansong , saying : ‘ I will decide at the end of the season , but I 'd rather quit at the top than drop down to a lower level , and the knees cause me a lot of pain . |
| 25 | The scene may be more easily pictured than described , each believing the other had been killed , ‘ … that their raptures on meeting were almost ludicrous ( sic ) … ’ . |
| 26 | The transition was then less abrupt than has since become the habit . |
| 27 | I do n't fiddle my results really — usually it 's easier to make up excuses for it being wrong than to go through and work it out to make it come out right . |
| 28 | Shooting a film is more risky than publishing a paperback . |
| 29 | But it 's less risky than pointing to totally unknown items on a menu . |
| 30 | The supply of debt finance is less risky than supplying equity finance and so investors will demand a lower rate of return on a firm 's debt securities than on its equity securities . |